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>>>Consider this:
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>>>A car approaches the speed of light and thus becomes close to infinitely long.
>>>It arrives at its garage and, only having drum brakes, fails to slow down and stop, crashing into the back wall and stopping dead.
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>>I think you have it backward. AFAIK, the length decreases in the direction of motion rather than increases. The car would become infinitely short and infinitely massive. Forget about being stopped by some stinking brick wall.
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>I think not. How could something aqpproach infinite shortness and yet also infinite mass? I may be wrong but that's how I learned it.

The same way a car could approach the speed of light. Logically it sounds like you're right, but you can't really apply ordinary logic to to infinite systems. Length contracts, time dilates, and mass increases as the speed of light is approached.

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